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The Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors offer excellent spatial and temporal resolution in harsh radiation environments of high-luminosity colliders. In this work, an attempt has been made to establish an algorithm for estimating the time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-11 Purba Bhattacharya , Nayana Majumdar , Supratik Mukhopadhyay , Sudeb Bhattacharya

With increasing interest in high-speed imaging should come an increased interest in the response times of our scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) detectors. Previous works have previously highlighted and contrasted performance…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Tiarnan Mullarkey , Matthew Geever , Jonathan J. P. Peters , Ian Griffiths , Peter D. Nellist , Lewys Jones

We present the results of our recent studies of a Thick Gaseous Electron Multiplier (THGEM)-based detector, operated in Ar, Xe and Ar:Xe (95:5) at various gas pressures. Avalanche-multiplication properties and energy resolution were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Alon , J. Miyamoto , M. Cortesi , A. Breskin , R. Chechik , I. Carne , J. M. Maia , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Gai , D. McKinsey , V. Dangendorf

The Yale-Weizmann collaboration aims to develop a low-radioactivity (low-background) cryogenic noble liquid detector for Dark-Matter (DM) search in measurements to be performed deep underground as for example carried out by the XENON…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-06-11 M. Gai , D. N. McKinsey , K. Ni , D. A. R. Rubin , T. Wongjirad , R. Alon , A. Breskin , M. Cortesi , J. Miyamoto

Time-resolved near-infrared absorption spectroscopy of single non-repeatable transient events is performed at high spectral resolution with a dual-comb interferometer using a continuous-wave laser followed by a single electro-optic…

Radiation-induced proportional-electroluminescence UV signals, emitted from the holes of a Thick Gas Electron Multiplier (THGEM) electrode immersed in liquid xenon, were recorded with a PMT for the first time. Significant photon yields were…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Arazi , A. E. C. Coimbra , R. Itay , H. Landsman , L. Levinson , M. L. Rappaport , D. Vartsky , A. Breskin

Photosensitive gaseous detectors with a simple photoelectron multiplication mechanism as resistive plate chambers are expected to offer both large photo coverage and excellent time resolution while keeping costs low. We have developed a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-25 R. Okubo , K. Matsuoka , T. Iijima , K. Inami , Y. Horii , K. Suzuki , K. Sumi , T. Ichikawa , K. Ueda , S. Koji , A. Kondo , K. Chiba

This contribution investigates a prototype of a TPC readout with a highly pixelated CMOS ASIC, which is an option for charged particles tracking of the ILC. A triple GEM stack was joined with a TimePix and MediPix2 chip (pixel size of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-16 A. Bamberger , K. Desch , U. Renz , M. Titov , N. Vlasov , P. Wienemann , S. Zimmermann , A. Zwerger

We report on the results of an extensive R&D program aimed at the evaluation of Thick-Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEM) as potential active elements for Digital Hadron Calorimetry (DHCAL). Results are presented on efficiency, pad…

The gain measurements of several 1 mm-thick, 10$\times$10 cm$^2$ Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (ThGEMs), operated in pure argon at 3.3 bar and room temperature are presented. Electrostatic simulations, performed with the COMSOL…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-07 G. Eurin , A. Delbart , R. De Oliveira , A. Drozd , P. Granger , M. Karolak , B. Mehl

Optical readout of large Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) with multiple Gas Electron Multipliers (GEMs) amplification stages has shown to provide very interesting performances for high energy particle tracking. Proposed applications for…

A thick gas electron multiplier (THGEM) chamber with an effective readout area of 10$\times$10 cm$^{2}$ and a 11.3 mm ionization gap has been tested along with two regular gas electron multiplier (GEM) chambers in a cosmic ray test system.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-03-23 S. Yang , S. Das , B. Buck , C. Li , T. Ljubicic , R. Majka , M. Shao , N. Smirnov , G. Visser , Z. Xu , Y. Zhou

The concept and subsequent experimental verification of the proportionality between pulse amplitude and detector transit time for microchannel plate detectors is presented. This discovery has led to considerable improvement in the overall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Victor D. Irby

The resolution and the linearity of time measurements made with the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter are studied with samples of data from test beam electrons, cosmic rays, and beam-produced muons. The resulting time resolution measured by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-08-27 CMS Collaboration

The properties of thick GEM-like (TGEM) gaseous electron multipliers, operated at 1-740 Torr are presented. They are made of a G-10 plate, perforated with millimeter-scale diameter holes. In single-multiplier elements, effective gains of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Chechik , A. Breskin , C. Shalem , D. Moermann

In this work, a fast method of vertex reconstructing for incident ions in GEM detectors was proposed. As inspired by the Time Projection Chamber (TPC), the time information of the consecutive signal samples from Front End Electronics (FEE)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-12-26 Huiyin Wu , Jianjin Zhou , Herun Yang , Jianrong Zhou , Chenggui Lu , Xin Zhao , Bitao Hu , Yi Zhang

We studied time resolution and response power dependence of three terahertz detectors based on significantly different types of field effect transistors. We analyzed the photoresponse of custom-made Si junctionless FETs, Si MOSFETs and…

The article deals with the detection efficiency of UV-photon detectors consisting of Thick Gas Electron Multipliers (THGEM) coated with CsI photocathode, operated in atmospheric Ne/CH4 and Ne/CF4 mixtures. We report on the photoelectron…

The operation of Thick Gaseous Electron Multipliers (THGEM) in Ne and Ne/CH4 mixtures, features high multiplication factors at relatively low operation potentials, in both single- and double-THGEM configurations. We present some systematic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-09-11 M. Cortesi , V. Peskov , G. Bartesaghi , J. Miyamoto , S. Cohen , R. Chechik , J. M. Maia , J. M. F. dos Santos , G. Gambarini , V. Dangendorf , A. Breskin

We briefly review the concept and properties of the Thick GEM (THGEM); it is a robust, high-gain gaseous electron multiplier, manufactured economically by standard printed-circuit drilling and etching technology. Its operation and structure…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-12-18 A. Breskin , R. Alon , M. Cortesi , R. Chechik , J. Miyamoto , V. Dangendorf , J. Maia , J. M. F. Dos Santos